Mudzi District
Mudzi Districtis adistrictofMashonaland East Province,Zimbabwe,in southern Africa.[1]It is located in the far eastern part of Zimbabwe. It covers 4,075 square kilometres (1,573 sq mi), all of which is communal land.[2]As of the 2022 census, the district had a population of 158,478,[3]this is up only slightly from the 135,378 of the 2002 census and reflects emigration due to the poverty of the district. It has a single main road, A2, that runs from the town of Mutoko in Mutoko District in the southwest through the district, past the villages of Chifamba, Mudzi, Chingwena, Masarakufa, Nyamuwanga, the town ofKotwa,and the village of Muzezuru to the town ofNyamapandabefore enteringMozambiqueto the northeast.[4][5][6]
As of the 2008 delimitation, Mudzi District had seventeen administrative wards formed into three parliamentary constituencies, and one designated growth centre at Kotwa.[2]As of 2008 theMudzi West constituencycovered the Shanga, Suswe, Mudzi, Musarakufa and Chiunye areas;[7]the Mudzi South constituency covered Katsande, Nyamatawa, Chikwizo, Gozi and Makana areas;[8]and the Mudzi North constituency covered the Nyamurapa, Kondo, Dendera, Kotwa, and Goromonzi areas and the border town of Nyamapanda.[9]
Rivers in Mudzi District include theMudziand Rwenya.[10]
Notes
[edit]- ^Mudzi District (Approved)atGEOnet Names Server,United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^abManhokwe, Lucia (2010),Top down or bottom up? District Development planning in Mudzi District, Zimbabwe,Masters thesis, Rotterdam, the Netherlands:Erasmus University
- ^"Zimbabwe: Administrative Division (Provinces and Districts) - Population Statistics, Charts and Map".citypopulation.de.Retrieved17 February2024.
- ^Zimbabwe. Mount Darwin. Sheet SE-36-02(Map) (1981 ed.). 1:250,0000. Surveyor General, Zimbabwe. Archived fromthe originalon 18 March 2007.
- ^Zimbabwe. Mutoko. Sheet SE-36-06(Map) (1991 ed.). 1:250,0000. Surveyor General, Zimbabwe. Archived fromthe originalon 18 March 2007.
- ^"Mudzi District Map"(PDF).United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs(OCHA). Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 24 April 2014.Retrieved24 April2014.
- ^"Mudzi West constituency"(PDF).Research Department, Parliament of Zimbabwe. 2011.Archived(PDF)from the original on 24 April 2014.
- ^"Mudzi South constituency"(PDF).Research Department, Parliament of Zimbabwe. 2011.Archived(PDF)from the original on 24 April 2014.
- ^"Mudzi North constituency"(PDF).Research Department, Parliament of Zimbabwe. 2011. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 24 April 2014.
- ^Manyukwe, Clemence (11 July 2013)."Forgotten Mudzi Cries Out".Financial Gazette.Archivedfrom the original on 16 July 2013.
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